ham it up

Verb

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Verb (1)

  1. exaggerate one's actingSynonyms: overacthamoverplayMore general act, play
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

ham it up

to act in a showy fashion or to act so as to attract attention; to ham. colloquial

From the entry Ham.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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